Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities (ALFs) provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs); coordination of services by outside health care providers; and monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. Assisted living as it exists today emerged in the 1990s as an eldercare alternative on the continuum of care for people, normally seniors, for whom Independent living is no longer appropriate but who do not need the 24-hour medical care provided by a nursing home. Assisted living is a philosophy of care and services promoting independence and dignity.

An assisted living facility provides care for seniors who need some help with activities of daily living yet wish to remain as independent as possible. A middle ground between independent living and nursing homes, Assisted Living Facilities aim to foster as much autonomy as the resident is capable of.  Most facilities offer 24-hour supervision and an array of support services, with more privacy, space, and dignity than many nursing homes—at a lower cost.
More recently built facilities are designed with an emphasis on ease of use by disabled people. Normally the facility has many activities scheduled for the occupants, keeping in mind different disabilities and needs.

In Assisted Living facilities or ‘ALF’, the residents live in different types of accommodation. The inmates in these facilities are taken care of by the staffers and caregivers of the facility. Food, housekeeping, laundry, timely medications, exercising, entertainment are all provided for at a prescribed fee.
But a very important aspect or criterion to be considered would be ‘good alf trained, experienced and qualified staff members’ because they are the backbones of any good and well-established assisted living facility. If a facility has very well trained, qualified and experienced staff on its payroll, then the said facility can be considered as a good option.